Sounds like “making book,” but I haven’t been doing any gambling. Well, not with money, anyway.

The art world is generous in the extreme in sharing knowledge. I learned some of these stamp-making techniques from Approachable Art by Judi Hurwitt (mixed media and textile artist).

String, apparently, we’ve been using since we were kids to make stamps. Except I didn’t, so it’s new to me. The bright green squiggles and squares are 3D paint I had leftover from some art attempt in the dark ages.

That painted blue page has imprints of other string and 3D paint stamps I’d made (poking out from under the easel).

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Your cats are adorable and stamps sound really cool. It’s also great to see your humor shine through!

I *didn’t know* my humor was showing. I’m generally so far removed from it–how do I say–*unaware* of it, stashed in my brain fog…. If you were with me, you’d see a generally flat affect, but I do laugh here and there.

Those cats are funny and sweet companions, though they do treat me sometimes as if I hadn’t a brain. harrumph!

Aww those kitties. I can see how much help they are to you.. ; ) I love your Blurt n Runs especially when you get wordy. You know L. your comment section is sometimes a party of happy words! I like looking at your table, makes me want to do that sort of thing and get my mind some place artsy but creative I am not. Sunday, my favorite day of the week. I’m gonna make it mine and make it count!!

I keep thinking of Wordless Wednesdays over at your place, Pix! You kept a lid on the words for the longest time, then BOOM it was off to the races! We loved it, didn’t all of us, when you’d post on Wednesdays!?

Pix, you may not recognize your own creativity or perhaps you are defining creativity too narrowly. I see creativity from you *whenever* you post and certainly in that picture of your feet! I heartily recommend that you clear a small space, grab whatever stuff you want to play with, then see what happens.

I could write a wordy BnR all about just doing with no intent, and certainly no idea whatthehell I was doing! And how it has taken me away, for a couple of hours a day, from a hellish reality.

Did you have eggs and mushrooms? (Oh crap–that was 5 minutes ago that I read over on Isobel’s your intent to have breakfast, now I’ve forgotten what the menu was!)

Ima go back to Wordless Wednesday, I think. I know I am a bit creative, geesh I like some of my own photography.. :) The menu at Isobel’s was fried egg and mushrooms. I had a bowl of bran. The mushrooms in my fridge looked furry. Scary.

I love the comments sections too, Pix, not just in my blog. So much laughter and easy affection. (which of course we miss when we aren’t posting! can’t win–not up for posting, but could use companionship….)

My innate curiosity was not destroyed by injury, so even if I’m a little foggy, I still wonder “What would happen if I….”. Thank goodness and all that is sacred.

And truly, I begin make discoveries that can apply to mosaics. Hmmmm…. With mosaics being so time-intensive, I cannot begin to imagine how many pieces I would have had to create in order to see how I see now.

Thank goodness I listened to my artist friends who advised me to leave aside the mosaics and try something else!!

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